AsahiLinux's Introduction to Apple Silicon

One of the more interesting bits: "From a security perspective, these machines may possibly qualify as the most secure general purpose computers available to the public which support third-party OSes"

There is also a Twitter thread with more info.

>while it’s absolutely true that Windows’ UEFI SecureBoot is intentionally not designed to defend against physical presence, that’s actually an improvement I shot for with Mac SecureBoot, first on T2 and then M1

https://twitter.com/XenoKovah/status/1425800637166596101

I was initially rather dismissive of such efforts, but it appears there might actually be a point to Linux on Apple silicon other than because we can.

Apple does not appear to be against such efforts and does not appear to raise any road blocks. The only slow down is that the community is on it's own with regards to drivers, especially GPU. But these are solvable.

Linux on Apple might actually be quite interesting.

That reveals a lot of the possible architecture bootable under macOS or apple arm hardware, not just linux. Is that really apple long term policy. Or thus the current technical group somehow work this out Luke the use of certain firmware in the past mac hardware? And compare with hypervisor approach (like windows) …. One wonder the long term implication.

This is great news! It’s been fun watching their progress as they brought it up.

It was also super good to learn about the absurdly bad sync perf on the SSDs that we may not have otherwise heard about.